• Shaykh Sulaymān al-Turkumānī (1): the so-called muwallah—“possessed”—who used to sit upon his bench in the ʿUlabiyyīn quarter. Before that he had resided in the ṭahāra of Bāb al-Barīd. He took no precautions against impurity, nor did he avoid it; he neither performed nor attended the prescribed prayers. Yet some people from among the hamaj—the rabble—held a creed concerning him (2), the very riffraff who follow every clamorous pretender among the possessed and the insane. They claimed that he could unveil the unseen and that he was a righteous man. He was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr on a day of heavy snowfall.
On the Day of ʿArafah there passed away:
• The righteous, devout, and ascetic shaykha (3) Umm Zaynab Fāṭimah bint ʿAbbās (4) b. Abī al-Fath b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādiyyah, in the outskirts of Cairo. A great multitude attended her funeral. She was among the learned and virtuous women: she commanded what is right and forbade what is wrong; she confronted the Ahmadiyyah order for their fraternizing with women [and murdān (beardless youths)] and denounced their practices and the doctrines of the innovators and others (5), accomplishing in that field what men themselves could not. She used to attend the lessons of Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah and gained from him that stance and much besides. I heard Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn praise her, describing her as virtuous and knowledgeable, and stating that she had by heart much—indeed most—of al-Mughnī. He would prepare himself for her because of her many questions, their excellence, and her quick understanding. She enabled numerous women to complete the recitation of the Quran; among them Umm ʿĀʾishah bint Ṣudayq, the wife of Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mizzī. She also taught my own wife, Amat al-Raḥīm Zaynab, her daughter. May Allah have mercy upon them, honor them with His mercy, and admit them to His Garden. Āmīn.
[Then the year 715 AH commenced] and opened [with the same rulers in the lands as those mentioned in the preceding year] (6).
The Conquest of Malatya (7)
On Monday (8), the first of Muḥarram, Sayf al-Dīn Tankiz marched out with the armies bound for Malatya, and there also set out